“There’s a Good Time Coming” was copyrighted on October 9, 1846, by Peters & Field of Cincinnati. The text was by poet Charles McKay. Foster was not the only one to set this poem to music. Henry Russell wrote a version prior to Foster that Foster was most likely familiar with and the Hutchinson Family also wrote a version that came out after Foster’s.

The first score linked below was used for the Foster Hall Reproduction.

“Turn Not Away!” was entered for copyright on October 15, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. 

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

The songs in Adolph M. Foerster’s Two Part Songs for female voices are “Spring’s Verdure” and “May Song.” The manuscript of the first song is in Foerster’s hand.

“Wander-Thirst” is a song for voice and piano by William H. Oetting. The text is by Josiah Gilbert Holland. The autograph manuscript in the William Oetting Collection is dated March 13, 1939.